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ANIMAL MAGNETISM,
MESMERISM,
CLAIRVOYANCY and MIND READING
HOW TO DEVELOP
THE MAGNETIC POWER
WITH CHAPTERS ON
JOHN D. BARNES
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Copyright 1903
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PREFACE.
Mesmerism # Clairvoyancy
CLAIRVOYANCE,
Mesmeric Clairvoyance is produced by the
passes as before taught.
It is rarely that a person becomes clairvoyant at
the first sitting, but such cases are not altogether
quite unknown, clairvoyance usually comes on by
degrees, the sleep becoming deeper and more
perfect at each succeeding sitting.
When you have produced a deep sleep upon
your patient, you must gently tell him that you
wish him to visit a certain place, and which you
will describe to him, if he hesitates you must try
and persuade him, but if he still objects, it is
better to defer it until another sitting; if he
MESMERISM AND CLAIRVOYANCY. 1
3
GENERAL ADVICE.
When you have once Mesmerized a person never
allow any one else to Mesmerize until the patient has
fully recovered from the effects of your Magnetism,
otherwise you will be liable to injure the patient
and produce convulsions, and a series of evil con-
sequences, leaving the patient in a Yery weak and
prostrate state.
Allow no unhealthy or evilly disposed person
to Mesmerize you, nor yet any one else at any
if
it,
is
it
it,
afterwards apply
bandage
a
that has been mesmerized by the breath, until
it
quite moist, and treat daily in this manner.
is
a
at home provided you have once if not more put
them into the Mesmeric Sleep. Cases of this
description are constantly occurring to almost
every practitioner.
Having selected the article you wish to Mes-
merize, you must proceed to make passes length-
ways of
it,
NOTES.
It may be observed that distance forms no
obstacle to the action of the Mesmeric influence
of the operator, although it may possibly weaken
or retard it to some extent.
Not only may the subject be put to sleep by
the silent will of the operator, but he may be
made also to exhibit all the phenomena already
mentioned as possible, in fact he can be controlled
as well by the silent will, as by the audible sounds
PRACTICAL TEACHINGS OF
tion to accomplish
it,
it
for some time, either immovable, or making
a
circular motion, and draw along towards the
it
it,
suffering part ; apply the mouth above and
breathe through excites a lively sensation of
it
it
;
is
;
is
is
4
is
)
46 PRACTICAL TEACHINGS OF
it,
Many in order to produce
Magnetizers,
charge the head very much and by this means
;
ing
tinues to sleep, without answering, there reason
is
to suppose heentering into the somnambulic
is
it,
this state would spontaneously develop itself.
Merely observe what peculiar precautions this
Demi-somnambulism requires such as, not suffer-
;
ing those to approach him who are not in com-
munication with him, not to oppose him, not to
awake him roughly, and to continue to occupy
yourself about him.
If your patient speaks, and to the question,
"Do you sleep?" answers, " Yes," he a Som-
is
nambulist but does not follow that he
is
it
;
is
if,
through you.
MESMERISM AND CLAIRVOYANCY. 6 1
FAITH.
The word jaith devoid of its religious,
y
HOPE.
HEALTH.
L.cfC."
MESMERISM AND CI<AIRVOYANCY.